Minimally invasive surgery of the liver

Foreword.-Preface.-Minimally invasive surgery:an update -- Minimally invasive surgery of the liver:an update -- The learning curve:experimental surgery -- The learning curve:teaching in robotic surgery -- Technology in the operating room:the laparoscopic column -- Technology in the operating room:the robot -- Anesthesia -- Costs and benefits, a triad in comparison:open , laparoscopic, robotic surgery -- Transection devices -- The Louisville consensus conference -- Indications to surgery:laparoscopic or robotic approach -- Diagnostic laparoscopy and allied technologies -- Intraoperative ultrasound -- A new anatomical vision:the liver screen-surgery -- Encircling the pedicle for the Pringle manoeuvre -- Combined minimally invasive surgery:liver and colon-rectum -- Minimally invasive procedures for liver trauma -- Minimally invasive surgery in the cirrhotic patient -- Repeated mininvasive surgery.-Treatment of the resection surface.-Delivery of the specimen -- Short and long-term follow up.-Ligation of the portal branch.-Tumorectomy.-An introduction to Segmentectomy -- Segment I: robot -- Segment II: VL.-Segment III: VL -- Segment IV:VL -- Segment IVa: VL -- Segment V: VL -- Segment VI: VL -- Segment VII: robot -- Segment VIII: robot -- Left lobectomy : VL -- Left lobectomy for living donor:VL -- Right hepatectomy: VL -- Right hepatectomy: robot -- Left Hepatectomy: VL -- Left hepatectomy: robot -- Complications -- The Italian experience in minimally invasive surgery of the liver: an overview -- Perspectives: where shall we be 20 years from now? -- Analytical Index.